This morning as I was thinking about the current humanitarian crisis at our own borders I reviewed what I consider to be the salient points.
1. Children fleeing hunger, poverty, violence, corruption and nations that could care less about the death of their future.
2. A group of people that would rather see them die in the desert from heat, land mines, open fire and armed troops than accept them as what they are...refugees.
3. A nation more concerned with its racism, xenophobia, hate and politics than in doing the right thing.
Damn this story sounded familiar...like an echo of something I had read, maybe a little known fact or preferably ignored part of history.
Then I remembered a ship I had read about once during World War II and the horrible Holocaust. I began doing some research (and by that I mean I googled it) to refresh my memory.
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